How to Download files and back again?
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Has any Hummites out there ever transferred contents from one disc and then back to another?
I'm considering changing the 160 Gb disc to 750 Gb disc. How do you transfer the contents off the 160 disc then put them back onto the newly installed 750 Gb disc?
Currently, I have about 65 programs I dont want to lose and either want to keep or dont have time to watch and wipe,unless I take two weeks off work and do nothing else. I have a slap top with about 20Gb free for the task.
'How to do' in plain English please,pc babble not really understood-thanks in advance.:)
I'm considering changing the 160 Gb disc to 750 Gb disc. How do you transfer the contents off the 160 disc then put them back onto the newly installed 750 Gb disc?
Currently, I have about 65 programs I dont want to lose and either want to keep or dont have time to watch and wipe,unless I take two weeks off work and do nothing else. I have a slap top with about 20Gb free for the task.
'How to do' in plain English please,pc babble not really understood-thanks in advance.:)
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Always difficult to explain technical things in non technical language.
First step if you are going to use the laptop is to buy an IDE to USB adaptor such as IDE to USB
Second step download HumaxRW from Humax RW Wiki. Unzip HumaxRW into a new directory below C: (eg if you call the new directory humaxrw then it would be C:\humaxrw).
Remove the existing drive from the 9200 and connect to the laptop using the adaptor. Put the new drive into the 9200 temporarily and power up the 9200 when it should offer to format the new disk. NB be very careful not to touch any of the power electronics in the 9200 whilst the box is connected to the mains; it is very easy to hurt yourself and damage the box. Turn off the 9200 and remove the new disk when the format is complete (a few seconds).
Start a command prompt (In Windows XP Start menu>All programs>Accessories>Command prompt.)
Type the following:
cd c:\humaxrw
humaxrw 2: -l
With luck this should produce a list of files on the old hard drive. If it doesn't try
humaxrw 3: -l
As you don't have enough space on the laptop you need to do the transfer in stages. To transfer the first ten programs (you will need to judge whether ten will fit into the available space) type:
humaxrw 2: -g 1-10
This will take a while, maybe half an hour. Disconnect the old drive reconnect the new drive and type:
humaxrw 2: -p *.ts
When complete try
humaxrw 2: -l
to check that the files have transferred. Delete them from the laptop and transfer the next batch of ten from the old drive using:
humaxrw 2: -g 11-20
and so on until complete. Come back and ask questions if something is not clear.
Is it possible to use an external drive?
Ian
The two main reasons I'm wanting to do this is to get rid of a bad sector on the disk where recordings appear twice, and also to recoup some space that PIP used to record in an earlier software bug.
I'm guessing with a format, the errors shouldn't carry across?
If you are seeing hard disk error messages from the 9200 then a format in a PC might improve things for a while. If you have a corrupt file system (which is what it sounds like to me) then a Humax format which is almost instantaneous should be adequate. You certainly won't do any harm formatting it in a PC though.
Thanks.
Connect both disks to the laptop.
As before type the following in the command prompt window:
cd c:\humaxrw
Work out which disk is which by going through the disk numbers with the listing command.
humaxrw 2: -l
Assuming disk 2 is the source and disk 3 is the destination.
To transfer the whole of the source to the destination:
humaxrw 2: 3: -b
I'm tempted to ask the question: If you haven't got time to watch what you've already recorded, why do you need a bigger disc?
(This from someone who has over 400 VHSs in the loft which haven't seen the light of day for about 10 years)
Thanks.